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...case involved Albert Ross, who was arrested in Washington, B.C., after an informant tipped police that Ross was selling narcotics kept in his car's trunk. A search of the trunk turned up a small brown paper bag. Inside, the police found heroin-evidence instrumental in Ross's conviction. An appeals court reversed that conviction, and last July the Supreme Court arrived at the same conclusion in a similar case. The Justices had said then that police could not constitutionally undo the opaque plastic wrapped around two bricks of marijuana stashed in the trunk of a California...
...staff of The Crimson voted to cover no more games and write no more columns, so the paper could devote its full energy and full space to tracking the upheaval Scholarship, which in Harvard's history often had taken a back seat to other activities, was stuffed in the trunk by many. Depressing and exhilarating, the era shattered the confidence of the postwar College, and punctured most of the stuffy heritage (and too many of the civilized and gentle men) that always had marked this school. It was probably the shortest lived important era in the College's history...
Your biochemistry text now rests at the bottom--very bottom--of your trunk, ready to be put out to pasture for at least the summer. And you've trashed your reading list for English 10. "The Tradition of English Literature": soon you'll forget what you were supposed to read...
...which had had my princely trunk...
...trying, really, to get elegance back into clothing without sacrificing ease. He wanted to find a way of dressing up that looked like dressing down: men's jackets that looked as if they had just been resurrected from a steamer trunk, women's suits that could have been borrowed from men but felt as if they had been cut to order, skirts and blouses that could seem at first randomly pulled from the closet but that, once together, worked a very particular and sudden magic. Legend has it that Fred Astaire would break in a new suit...